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Originally Posted by VacMan  I agree, the bike analogy I used is a bit off.
You can also be "addicted" to things your body NEEDS and it's addicted for a good reason.
For example: Food, air, water...
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Food, air, and water are very broad classifications, but I'll focus on food because that is the most misused.
What you refer to as food, I might say is not food. I can swallow pennies and eat paper, are they food?
I'll use the flesh of chicken as an example because I can see from your blog that you consider it food. I do not consider the flesh of a chicken as food. When you regularly eat a chicken's flesh, after abstaining from it from eating it's possible to experience detox. (or withdrawl symptoms if you prefer)
What your body needs, is not as simple a concept as you make it out to be. It's debatable. Eating things your body doesn't need (non-food) has potential for side effects, even if you call it food.
Calling something food doesn't make it food.
Abstaining from non-foods can cause detoxification symptoms because you're used to eating non-foods. Similar to how a heroine addict detoxes from abstinence of heroine use.